3 papers
cs.LG2026
Towards Understanding the Power and Limits of the Muon Optimizer: A River-Valley Perspective
Tianqi Shen, Jinji Yang, Runze Shi +3
Recently, Muon has gained substantial attention as an appealing alternative to Adam-like optimizers, with many works highlighting its advantages through spectral normalization and…
cs.LG2026
Escaping Local Minima Provably in Non-convex Matrix Sensing: A Deterministic Framework via Simulated Lifting
Tianqi Shen, Jinji Yang, Junze He +3
Low-rank matrix sensing is a fundamental yet challenging nonconvex problem whose optimization landscape typically contains numerous spurious local minima, making it difficult for g…
cs.LG2025
DPASyn: Mechanism-Aware Drug Synergy Prediction via Dual Attention and Precision-Aware Quantization
Yuxuan Nie, Yutong Song, Jinjie Yang +3
Drug combinations are essential in cancer therapy, leveraging synergistic drug-drug interactions (DDI) to enhance efficacy and combat resistance. However, the vast combinatorial sp…